"Mommy…" little Saiyamo began.
"Yeah?" Lavender asked as she tucked her daughter into bed.
"Will you sing me a song?" Saiyamo asked, sitting up.
"Sure. What song would you like to hear?" Lavender replied.
"The special song." Saiyamo requested. "The one with the fair."
"Oh, Scarborough Fair." Lavender smiled. Saiyamo nodded with a cheeky grin on her face as she pulled the covers up to her chin.
"Sing it." She beamed. Lavender chuckled, and began singing to her daughter.
"Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme,
Remember me to one who lives there,
He once was a true love of mine,"
Saiyamo smiled, and lay down as she listened to her mother's song.
"Tell him to make me a cambric shirt,
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme,
Without no seams nor needlework,
Then he'll be a true love of mine,
Tell him to find me an acre of land,
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme,
Between the salt water and the sea strand,
Then he'll be a true love of mine."
"Mommy, where did you learn that song?" Saiyamo asked sleepily.
"My mother used to sing it to me." Lavender told her. "I think she learnt it off her mother."
"What's it –" Saiyamo yawned. "What's it about?"
"Well… It's about a man and his girlfriend. She's waiting for him at Scarborough Fair."
"What's Scarber Fair?"
Lavender chuckled at her daughter's cute mispronunciation. This puzzled Saiyamo a little.
"What's so funny?" she asked.
"Nothing, baby." Lavender answered.
"What's Scarber Fair?" Saiyamo repeated her question.
"Well… it's a place on Earth. That's where the song's from." Lavender told her. "But… it doesn't really matter what Scarborough Fair actually is. For the song, it's just a place. A place where your true love is waiting for you."
"Oh." Saiyamo still didn't really understand, but assumed she did. "Sing the rest of it, mommy." Lavender smiled, and obeyed.
"Tell him to reap it in a sickle of leather,
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme,
And to gather it all in a bunch of heather,
Then he'll be a true love of mine."
"Mommy, what's a true love?" Saiyamo asked.
"It's… someone you love so much, you love them forever and ever." Lavender explained. "And even if making them happy makes you sad, you still do it. Because you want them to be happy."
"Are mommies and daddies true loves?" Saiyamo questioned.
"Yes, in most cases. In others, they're not." Lavender told her.
"Is daddy your true love?"
"… Yes." Lavender said. "Yes, he is."
"So why isn't he here?" Saiyamo asked.
"It's… complicated, Saiya-chan. I had to leave him for a special reason." Lavender told her.
"What was my daddy?"
"You mean what race?"
Saiyamo nodded.
"He was a demi-saiyan." Lavender answered.
"What's that?"
"Someone who's half-saiyan. Like I'm a demi-changeling. He was half saiyan, half human."
"What am I?" Saiyamo asked.
"You're…" Lavender worked it out. "Half… human, quarter changeling and quarter saiyan."
"Was my daddy a princess too? Like you are?" Saiyamo saw nothing wrong in her question. Lavender giggled.
"No, he was a prince. But it's the same thing."
"The prince of saiyans?"
"No, he's the son of the prince of saiyans." Lavender replied.
"My grandpa was the prince of saiyans? Like my other grandpa was the prince of changelings?"
"Yes, that's right. And they both married humans." Lavender added.
"They sound the same…" Saiyamo commented.
"No," Lavender shook her head. "They're both very different."
"Is one mean and one nice?" Saiyamo asked.
"Well… they're both pretty short-tempered ^_^" Lavender told her. "But Vegeta – the saiyan – is a little less aggressive than my father…"
"What's aggesive?" Saiyamo questioned.
"He… gets angry a lot." Lavender tried to make it sound as tame as she possibly could for her five-year-old.
"Can I see my daddy?" Saiyamo had a hopeful expression on her little face.
"… I'm sorry, Saiya-chan… But you can't." Lavender said gently.
"Why not?"
"It's… complicated. If your grandpas found out about your father and me… they'd be very angry. I'm… afraid of what my father would do to yours…"
"I want to see him…" Saiyamo mumbled. "Does he know about me?"
"… No." Lavender shook her head. "Nobody does. You and I… we're the only people that know you exist. And it has to stay that way. I'm sorry, Saiya…"
"I want to see my daddy…" Saiyamo didn't understand any of it. "Isn't he your true love? Is that why you left him?"
"No!" Lavender gasped. "No, he is my true love! I love your daddy, I just can't see him… or my daddy will hurt him. Understand?"
"No…"
"It's okay." Lavender said. She re-tucked in her daughter. "You don't need to worry about that. All you need to know is that both your mommy and daddy love you very much. And I'll be here forever." She promised. "So don't you worry about a thing, okay?"
Saiyamo nodded. She began to get sleepy again.
Lavender smiled.
"Close your eyes, babes."
"Mm-hm…" Saiyamo had already done so. Lavender gazed down at her as Saiyamo drifted off into her dreams.
"Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme,
Remember me to one who lives there,
He once was a true love of mine."
She leaned forward, and planted a small kiss on Saiyamo's cheek.
"Goodnight, Saiya." She whispered, and silently left the room.
"Daddy…" Saiyamo mumbled in her sleep.